Re: Add support for EXTRA_DIST_LINKS

[madmurphy]

Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be
back and try to propose a patch.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:00 PM madmurphy <madmurphy333@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Karl. I will not have much time until next week, but I will be
> back and try to propose a patch.
>
> Il giorno gio 3 giu 2021 alle ore 00:13 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
> ha scritto:
>
>>     No, my name is not Jim,
>>
>> Sorry for being unclear. I wasn't guessing your name, but rather asking
>> Jim Meyering, long-time maintainer of Automake, to chime in.
>>
>>     make DIST_FLAGS='symlinks' dist
>>
>> I can't think of any specific problem with the idea, except for the
>> general complication of adding a new "concept" of dist-time options. But
>> still, it seems reasonable, if Automake is going to support symlinks in
>> tarballs at all. Jim, wdyt?
>>
>> I do think the name of the variable should be DIST_OPTIONS rather than
>> _FLAGS, since "symlinks" is not exactly a flag. Come to think of it,
>> adding AM_, ending up with AM_DIST_OPTIONS, would be safer and clearer.
>>
>>     Additionally we can also keep the EXTRA_DIST_LINKS, *which will
>>     still dereference symlinks unless used in conjunction with
>>     DIST_FLAGS='symlinks'*.
>>
>> Sounds sensible. --thanks for all, karl.
>>
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